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A discussion of “The Choanoflagellate’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“The Lungfish’s Tale”: youtu.be/sS6aYTDs8X4
“Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.0476
“The Sponge’s Tale”: youtu.be/je3FYwmILzY
“Extended divergence estimates and species descriptions of new craspedid choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S093247392100033X?via%3Dihub
“Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar‐flagellar systems and the assumption of homology”: researchgate.net/profile/Sally-Leys/publication/259606132_Choanoflagellate_and_choanocyte_collar-flagellar_systems_and_the_assumption_of_homology/links/5de72bf74585159aa45f757d/Choanoflagellate-and-choanocyte-collar-flagellar-systems-and-the-assumption-of-homology.pdf
“The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes”: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?rev=2&id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000226
“The Origin of Animal Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580717307694
“Choanoflagellate evolution: the morphological perspective”: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/choanoflagellateevolution-the-morphological-perspective.pdf
“Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa”: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0801667105
“Evidence for Sex and Recombination in the Choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213011275
“The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans”: nature.com/articles/nature06617.pdf
“Gene gain and loss across the metazoan tree of life”: nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1069-x
“On the origin of the metazoa”: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=834505607f70bf37389f64d6d7af562130ab0046
“Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160611009924?via%3Dihub#s0100
“Re-evaluating Loricate Choanoflagellate Phylogenetics: Molecular Evidence Points to the Paraphyly of Tectiform Species”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461022000694?via%3Dihub#b0100
“A family of diatom-like silicon transporters in the siliceous loricate choanoflagellates”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.2543
“Experimental Evolution Pt. 1”: youtu.be/j5gqQchZWrw
“The Polypifer’s Tale”: youtu.be/sMgtGU3aQEw
“Pluripotency and the origin of animal multicellularity”: nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1290-4
A discussion of “The Choanoflagellate’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“The Lungfish’s Tale”: youtu.be/sS6aYTDs8X4
“Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.0476
“The Sponge’s Tale”: youtu.be/je3FYwmILzY
“Extended divergence estimates and species descriptions of new craspedid choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S093247392100033X?via%3Dihub
“Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar‐flagellar systems and the assumption of homology”: researchgate.net/profile/Sally-Leys/publication/259606132_Choanoflagellate_and_choanocyte_collar-flagellar_systems_and_the_assumption_of_homology/links/5de72bf74585159aa45f757d/Choanoflagellate-and-choanocyte-collar-flagellar-systems-and-the-assumption-of-homology.pdf
“The architecture of cell differentiation in choanoflagellates and sponge choanocytes”: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?rev=2&id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000226
“The Origin of Animal Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580717307694
“Choanoflagellate evolution: the morphological perspective”: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/choanoflagellateevolution-the-morphological-perspective.pdf
“Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa”: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0801667105
“Evidence for Sex and Recombination in the Choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213011275
“The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans”: nature.com/articles/nature06617.pdf
“Gene gain and loss across the metazoan tree of life”: nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1069-x
“On the origin of the metazoa”: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=834505607f70bf37389f64d6d7af562130ab0046
“Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160611009924?via%3Dihub#s0100
“Re-evaluating Loricate Choanoflagellate Phylogenetics: Molecular Evidence Points to the Paraphyly of Tectiform Species”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461022000694?via%3Dihub#b0100
“A family of diatom-like silicon transporters in the siliceous loricate choanoflagellates”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.2543
“Experimental Evolution Pt. 1”: youtu.be/j5gqQchZWrw
“The Polypifer’s Tale”: youtu.be/sMgtGU3aQEw
“Pluripotency and the origin of animal multicellularity”: nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1290-4
